Issue link: http://educator.cta.org/i/1476161
Tellingly, 81 percent of respondents say they experienced their own names being mispronounced. • The "My Name, My Identity " campaign, launched in 2016 by the Santa Clara County Office of Education in partnership with the National Association for Bilingual Education, encourages children and youth to feel a sense of pride about their name and patiently correct people who mispronounce it. e campaign is also for all students and educators to understand the importance of honoring their peers' identities by learning to pronounce their names correctly — and learning the stories behind the names. Engaging in these activities will help cultivate an inclusive learning environment. e campaign offers a comprehensive toolkit and multiple resources for classroom educators (go to mynamemyidentity.org). It asks edu- cators to take the pledge to respect student names. • Before school starts, educators can also call parents or check in with a student's previous teacher on the correction pronunciation of a name. Getting It Right (tinyurl.com/gettingnamesright), a publication from the Regional Education Laborator y Northwest, offers infor- mation on naming conventions in 11 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese. Learning about each other and valuing each other's backgrounds and cultures — including our names — is key to an inclusive, thriving classroom and school. The "My Name, My Identity" campaign from the Santa Clara County Office of Education with the National Association for Bilingual Education, encourages children and youth to feel a sense of pride about their name. Call Them by Their Names CTA asked members how they learned to pronounce students names. Popular responses: 1. "Spell it phonetically." 2. "Ask your students! They appreciate it." 3. "At the beginning of the year, I have them sit in pairs and it helps me remember their names by association." 4. "Keep trying!" 5. "Sit them in alphabetical order the first month." 6. " The 'About Me' profiles I create include: Legal Name, Preferred Name with Phonetic Spelling. I use name tags too." 7. "For the first month, I have students say their names before speaking." 8. "Repeating their names over and over again in front of the class shows that teachers have things to learn too!" 39 A U G U S T / S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 2 Getting It Right Reference Guides for Registering Students with Non-English Names, 2nd Edition Jason Greenberg Motamedi Zafreen Jaffery Allyson Hagen Sun Young Yoon Education Northwest March 2017 Getting It Right has information on naming conventions in 11 languages.